Retired Ottawa Firefighters Association​

The Retired Ottawa Firefighters Association (ROFFA) was founded in 2010, by a group of Ottawa Retired Firefighters for the purpose of establishing an organization dedicated to serving retired Ottawa Firefighters, their spouses, widows and widowers.

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Once an active Ottawa Firefighter retires, he or she automatically becomes a Member of ROFFA.

Please inform us of your retirement to be added to the ROFFA email alert list.

OMERS recognizes the challenging and uncertain times that our members and employers are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are working hard to provide our community with relevant and up-to-date information about the impact to the OMERS Plan. That is why we are writing to you today – to make you aware that we have begun to publish updates and FAQs on our website, both for our members, and for our employers.

You can find the member information page here, and the employer information page here. Please be aware that we will be continuing to add more information to these web pages as the situation evolves, and more information becomes available.

I invite you to share this update with your organization if you wish, and if you have other questions for OMERS that you would like to see addressed, please contact Oliver Jerschow, Vice President, Employer and Stakeholder Relations, at ojerschow@omers.com.

Thank you

Michael Rolland

Chief Executive Officer

March 26, 2020

Covid-19 Emergency Preparedness and ROFFA Members stepping up to help

It has been an extraordinary two weeks ever since the Canadian Prime Minister warned all Canadians from abroad to return home “now” and with the ever-changing reality of how Covid-19 has brought unprecedented disruptions to our daily lives. We are suddenly finding ourselves in a world full of closures of pretty well everything except essential services, people working from home, record unemployment rates, imposed self-isolation for many and social distancing for everyone else. Our lives have literally been turned upside down and no one knows exactly how long it will be before life goes back to normal.Read More >